First-ever study describes deep-sea animal communities around a sunken shipping container

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Thousands of shipping containers are lost from cargo vessels each year. In 2004, scientists discovered a lost shipping container almost 1,300 meters below the surface of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. In the first-ever survey of its kind, researchers recently described how deep-sea animal communities on and around the container differed from those in surrounding areas....
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